The Bidding Room

Why WHY do all these programmes throw in repeats in a new series. So fed up of the programme makers doing this. It's the same with all such as Antique Roadshow, Repair Shop, etc etc etc. It totally spoils it for the viewer If you can't make the appropriate number for a series then you are failing. Stop throwing in a repeat.

It's bad enough at the beginning to have highlights of what's coming up, this spoils the excitement. But series made by this company does it. There is no need to do this to get us interested. I end up recording these type of shows so I can wiz through spoilers.

It's about time we have something new without these spoilers and repeats.

Ah, 'The Bidding Room' - the BBC's latest attempt to fill their afternoon schedules with something that's not a game show.

Part Antiques Roadshow, part Dragon's Den, it features Nigel Havers presenting (in trainers sometimes! It just doesn't look right) in full 'kindly Uncle' persona, and oddly it all makes for mildly entertaining stuff.

Certainly not the worst thing on during the daytime slot.

I don't like sticking the boot in but I agree with other reviewers - the programme format is so weak it's hard to understand why the BBC commissioned it. The seller - a member of the public - comes in with a piece of old tat, has a quick chat with Nigel Havers and then one of the bidders buys it. That is it. No emotion, no great competition, no likeable characters (Nigel excepted). Most of the items are dull and low value - it probably costs more to get them to the studio than the bidders end up paying. The programme format needs rethinking. Maybe if we could see what the successful bidder does with the item and what profit they go on to make, it might be more involving. That is probably beyond the budget of the show though so probably best to scrap it. Come to think of it, bring back Ceefax it was more engaging.

A Very smug and patronising show

I find this show to very patronising, the so called expert's all claim to love every item that gets brought on the show, but then they all offer an insultingly low amount , And most of them don't even offer anything,so what is the point of the show? To humiliate the participants?

I don't have a problem with Nigel Havers, he's perfectly adequate in his role

the problem is with the experts, they all appear smug and act like they are Better than the guest, I Also can't stand the fake fawning " ooh it's fabulous, this item is the best thing ever" then they offer £30

Simon is really irritating and his predictable jokes add nothing to the show

Another really irritating thing is when they ask the guest what they will do with the money,

who really cares? Oh you're going on holiday? Or buying a car? Riveting information

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With a cast of dubious Del boys and a host who delights in behaving in an unharacteristicly camp manner this has to be one of the poorest programmes of the genre.